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n t discern it can t tell right from wrong chorus some hail it as our compass as the sign of growing might some warn it hides pollution in its glow of summing light it weighs the market s motion but it leaves out human sight what makes a life belong chorus so use it as a window not the story whole and true a lens to watch an engine not a measure of virtue a number helps us navigate but we choose how to view the world we build upon chorus still when all is said and done it measures something real not like those silly measures that just ask how people feel cause those notions of utility are slip ry as an eel gdp s the best we ve got chorus posted by mungowitz at 12 16 2025 10 34 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday may 07 2025 3d chess trump is on the 3d chess team on the losing team by himself because the three different d s are contradictory i try to steel man each separate strategy as a way of showing that even if you think each of the three is good i don t think that but suppose then it s still true that you can t achieve all three at the same time from the folks at aier my column posted by mungowitz at 5 07 2025 06 58 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels international trade politics monday july 24 2023 geoffrey brennan 9 15 44 7 28 22 long time duke faculty member and friend geoffrey brennan died in canberra australia of complications from acute leukemia geoff joined the duke department of political science in january 2005 as the nan keohane distinguished visiting professor and has served as a research professor since he helped co found and staff the philosophy politics and economics program a joint effort of duke and unc chapel hill his primary appointment and most of his time was spent at the australian national university in canberra he was an eminent scholar in public choice and public economics with some of his influential early work published with nobel prize winner james buchanan including the power to tax and the reason of rules in the 1990 s geoff s interests turned toward the connections between public choice and the growing field of behavioral economics in democracy and decision with loren lomasky he considered a novel solution to the paradox of voting by giving expressive voting a much firmer theoretical foundation in 2000 brennan followed up this work with democratic devices and desires with alan hamlin he extended this perspective with the discipline crossing book the economy of esteem written with philosopher and political scientist philip pettit his final book explaining norms with lina erikkson robert goodin and nicholas southwood has implications that are still being explored in research work and laboratory experiments geoff was co editor of the collected works of james m buchanan and was extraordinarily energetic in working to create intellectual bridges he was the first non u s president of the public choice society in 2002 and helped co found the european center for the study of public choice in rome locally geoff and his spouse margaret were famous hosts when they were renting duke s r taylor cole house at 7 sylvan road in durham guests enjoyed not just fellowship and good food but might be an audience for geoff s remarkable singing voice perhaps in a rendition of bye bye blacksburg or other favorites posted by mungowitz at 7 24 2023 03 22 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest election day 2022 got to walk to our polling place and exercise my voting privilege even gordon tullock would have approved of my voting today since i got to vote for myself nc senate district 13 it was crowded but the line was negligible two people at each of two different stations to be identified and then to get the ballot on every election day i am often reminded of emerson s 1844 observations of watching folks go to vote that s almost 180 years ago but it rings true now at least it rings true to me i remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors and a good man at my side looking on the people remarked i am satisfied that the largest part of these men on either side mean to vote right i suppose considerate observers looking at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions will assent that in spite of selfishness and frivolity the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity the reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion or his aid to your benevolent design is in you he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth because though you think you have it he feels that you have it not you have not given him the authentic sign ralph waldo emerson new england reformers 1844 posted by mungowitz at 7 24 2023 03 22 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 17 2022 transaction costs in everything wooden puzzle sharing platform this is actually pretty remarkable there is small by proportion though fairly large in number subculture of wooden puzzle enthusiasts really high quality die cut wooden puzzles but of course each puzzle is reasonably expensive and once it s assembled it s really just well a picture with a bunch of squiggly lines in it not that much to look at a natural for sharing enter the hoefnagel wooden jigsaw puzzle club you keep the puzzle for as long as you want and puzzles are generally returned by mailing it to the the next user not back to the central facility and everyone can afford better and more varied puzzling a library of wooden jigsaw puzzles delivered by mail browse the library like old school netflix but for puzzles unlimited puzzles keep puzzles as long as you want 30 brands artifact liberty stave wentworth 800 different wooden jigsaw puzzles posted by mungowitz at 3 17 2022 04 57 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wise man s tools are analogies and puzzles sunday october 31 2021 transaction costs in everything needs a lift this request appeared on next door an app for communicating about neighborhood doings and information many shade tree mechanics have their own set of ramps some with hydraulic lifts like this one but if i could rent a real lift for say 44 95 an hour and could schedule the time i could get a lot more done very quickly oil change tires brakes could do several things at once plus the rental could come with a standard set of basic tools which in the case of auto repair is both standard and quite specialized would need a way to check all the tools are there at the end and are unbroken but that should be possible if we can just use electronics to reduce say it with me transaction costs okay the 44 95 is not hypothetical anything i can imagine some entrepreneur has already tried that one is in denver by the way a video if you are interested given the labor shortages plaguing many parts of the country we might see apps facilities that rent out auto lifts commercial kitchens what else folks the sky is the limit if the sky were transaction costs posted by mungowitz at 10 31 2021 08 39 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cars diy transaction costs in everything monday october 18 2021 transaction costs in everything milaw who needs constant attention craigslist ad seeks a wedding escort for a future bride s mother in law offering 1 000 for two days work the ad titled wedding date wanted for mother in law was posted on july 11 to the hudson valley craigslist times union reported the ad said it was looking for someone available for an august wedding in hudson valley she needs constant attention and supervision the ad read she will probably wear white and try to escalate small dramas your job is simply to distract and de escalate flatter her for 2 days and make an easy 1 000 i dunno 1 000 is not much for the set of skills and well attention that this might require not putting too fine a point on it but applicants might want to see a photo of the milaw in question before a final price is negotiated posted by mungowitz at 10 18 2021 08 51 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels transaction costs in everything thursday october 07 2021 transaction costs in everything the drill coordinating the sharing economy can be complicated that s why there are platforms with thanks to the lmm for the find posted by mungowitz at 10 07 2021 07 53 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels sharing economy transaction costs in everything sunday september 26 2021 don t cross the streams economies of scale in ignoring sports teams three weeks ago today sept 5 i paid close attention to the st louis cardinals baseball game against the brewers the cards lost by giving up 5 runs in stupid and inept fashion in the 9th inning blowing a 5 1 lead i announced that baseball season was for me over and i would be ignoring the cardinals and all of baseball from this point until spring training when pitchers and catchers report in february this promise i have kept scrupulously my impression i wouldn t actually know of course because i m ignoring baseball that soon after i unplugged the cardinals have won some games and are playing better given that their winning percentage at the time i began to ignore them was 0 51 it is a simple binomial calculation to show that the chances of them winning say i don t know 15 games in a row is less than 000001 by any reasonable standard of inference then it is my ignoring of the cardinals that has produced any success of which of course i am unaware but have heard rumors this is an enormous power my good friend christina wolbrecht has gone so far as to suggest that i seclude myself in a remote unibomber style cabin to ensure that i am able to continue to ignore the cards i should note that donna gingerella has endorsed this proposal on condition that i write home occasionally so far so good but i have a friend a pathetic reds fan if that is not redundant and of course it is redundant who has asked that i should also ignore the reds he would be willing i won t give his name but his initials are michael martin to pay a small amount for this service it struck me that this is quite a business opportunity rooting for a team is time consuming that s why i gave up on the cards it was taking a lot of time and sadness but ignoring a team is easy and of course it scales i could ignore many teams with no additional cost but then i saw the problem in the reasoning what if two teams i m ignoring play each other it would be the equivalent of crossing the streams in ghostbusters and that would be very very bad egon said so so sorry folks ignoring the cardinals is going to be my sole project for the rest of this year i m happy to accept bids to ignore your team next year once i have started watching the cards again posted by mungowitz at 9 26 2021 10 20 00 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels sports friday september 17 2021 transaction costs in everything thai taxi gardens for now at least thailand has way too many taxis parked they take up a lot of valuable surface area and create runoff for rain but if you put a small plot of land atop each taxi voila modular commodification of excess capacity as argued in my recent book these are literal platforms posted by mungowitz at 9 17 2021 08 00 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels transaction costs in everything older posts home subscribe to posts atom lewis carroll tis love tis love said the duchess that makes the world go round somebody said whispered alice that it s done by everybody minding their own business ah well replied the 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